Tadkewali Masoor Dal Khichdi Recipe With Garlic & Onions

Comfort food at it's best, this Lehsun-Pyaaz Tadkewali Masoor Dal Khichdi Recipe is a light meal of whole masoor dal cooked along with rice until it is mushy and topped with a luscious tempering of onions and garlic fried in ghee with simple spices. A quick fix meal that can be put together with basic ingredients at home.  Course : Main Course Ingridients : For the khichdi 1 cup Rice , washed and soaked 3/4 cup Masoor Dal (Whole) 1 Tomato , chopped 2 inch Ginger , chopped 1 Bay leaf (tej patta) 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi) 2 Green Chillies , chopped Salt , to taste For the tadka 2 tablespoons Ghee 2 teaspoons Cumin seeds (Jeera) 2 Dry Red Chillies 6 cloves Garlic , chopped 2 Onions , thinly sliced Salt , to taste 1/3 cup Coriander (Dhania) Leaves , chopped Instructions To begin making the Tadkewali Masoor Dal Khichdi Recipe With Garlic & Onion, heat a pressure cooker on medium flame, add the masoor dal, rice, tomato, ginger, green chilies, turmeric powder, salt and bay leaf.Add 4 cups of water and pressure cook the Masoor Dal Khichdi for 4 whistles and turn off the heat.Allow the pressure to release naturally. Set asideIn a kadai, heat ghee on medium flame, add cumin seeds and red chilies, let them sizzle.Next add the chopped garlic and fry till it turns brown, this will take 2-3 minutes.Once the garlic is fried, add in the thinly sliced onions and saute for about 5 minutes until it gets caramelized. Turn off the flame, mix in the coriander leaves and set aside.Open the pressure cooker give the Masoor Dal Khichdi good stir.  Transfer the Masoor Dal Khichdi into a serving platter and spoon the Garlic and Onion Tadka to the Masoor Dal Khichdi. Serve this Tadkewali Masoor Dal Khichdi Recipe With Garlic & Onion along with Pudina & Dhaniya Raita Recipe and Aam Ka Achaar Recipe for a simple comforting weeknight dinner.